privacy by design

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January 31, 2025

Poland Leads with GDPR-Compliant Digital Identity App

Poland’s mObywatel app enhances public service access, prioritizes privacy, and prepares for EU-wide digital ID systems by 2027.

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February 22, 2024

Ann Cavoukian Shares Thoughts on Privacy and AI

Ann Cavoukian gives perspective on fostering privacy in AI through Privacy Design principles, ensuring data security and ethical innovation.

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September 7, 2023

Met police data platform deployed with data protection issues

The Metropolitan Police Service’s Connect system encountered data protection issues and search functionality weaknesses.

September 6, 2023

OpenAI accused of string of data protection breaches in GDPR complaint filed by privacy researcher

OpenAI is facing allegations of breaching various aspects of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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March 2, 2023

Synthetic data puts privacy at the heart of AI projects

AI-generated insights are enabling us to get creative in invigorating ways while respecting our privacy.

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January 20, 2023

Privacy by Design to become an ISO standard

Fourteen years after introduction, Privacy by Design (PbD) is about to become an international privacy standard.

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December 23, 2022

Companies use design to take our time, money and personal data

Many companies use deceptive design to hold on to customers, increase sales, or acquire personal data.

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November 29, 2022

$275M Fine for Meta After Facebook Data Scrape

Meta has been found in violation of Europe’s GDPR rules requiring the social media giant to protect user data by “design and default.”

November 10, 2021

‘Dark patterns’: Regulators eye tech tricks that hurt consumers

Congress, the Federal Trade Commission, state regulators and others are lining up for a possible crackdown on auto-renewals and other potentially deceptive practices.

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May 7, 2021

Privacy Chiefs Say Patchwork Data Laws Mean Lawyers Must Work Alongside Engineers

Ensuring compliance with data protection laws has become so complicated that companies must make room for regulatory and ethics experts in product engineering processes.

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April 16, 2021

Italian DPA launches a contest on ‘easy privacy information via icons’

‘Easy privacy information via icons? Yes, you can!’ The Italian DPA launches a contest calling for creative ideas from all quarters.

October 26, 2020

Half of large companies to adopt privacy-enhancing computation by 2025

Half of large organisations will implement privacy-enhancing computation for processing data in untrusted environments within five years, Gartner has predicted. […]

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